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Anyone who thinks they're sexy needs their head checked. -- Jarvis Cocker
The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice. -- Thomas Malthus
I hate patriotism... I can't stand it. It's a round world last time I checked. -- Bill Hicks
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. -- Erich Segal
I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law. -- Stephen Colbert
The first inkling my husband had that I was thinking about suicide was when he checked my blog. -- Ayelet Waldman
I have to be cautious, have my thyroid levels checked, and as long as I do that, I'm fine. -- Gail Devers
I have seven scars from having moles removed. One was a melanoma, six were precancerous. Get your moles checked! -- Jennifer Morrison
What happened in Queensland is that people are facing high unemployment relative to other states - 5.7 per cent when I last checked. -- Campbell Newman
If you look at the 9/11 highjackers, certainly they were educated, some even had university degrees, but nobody really checked their mothers, who were nearly all illiterate. -- Greg Mortenson
New mothers should enjoy every phase of motherhood without caring about the world. Weight can be checked and controlled. Don't lose your head and mind over it. -- Shilpa Shetty
We're always, by the way, in fundamental physics, always trying to investigate those things in which we don't understand the conclusions. After we've checked them enough, we're okay. -- Richard P. Feynman
When the headache persisted, I checked myself into an emergency room. When the doctor used the term 'brain tumour', I feared the worst. My whole world shrank around me. -- Leander Paes
A cake is a very good test of an oven: if it browns too much on one side and not on the other, it's not your fault - you need to have your oven checked. -- Delia Smith
The people who truly know me know what I'm like. There have been people who try to say things that aren't fair, and I check them. And then they don't like me because I checked them. -- Kobe Bryant
The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised. -- John C. Calhoun
I think my heart always goes out to men at the peak of their celebrity who checked out. There's such an odd, horrible trend in my lifetime for it - Kurt Cobain, David Foster Wallace, Alexander McQueen, Heath Ledger. -- Chuck Palahniuk
It's time to stop thinking of the Republican Party as an exclusive club where your ideological card is checked at the door, and start thinking about how we can attract more solution-based leaders like Nathan Fletcher and Anthony Adams. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
I think if you checked the attendance records of all the announcers, you'd find a lot better record than you would of anybody else in any other business because we love the game and have a passion for it. -- Ernie Harwell
But the most precious research to me came from the paperwork filed on behalf of my grandparents and great-grandfather. The ship's manifest showed that they could read and write. I am still emotional when I look at those boxes checked yes. -- Adriana Trigiani
Last I looked - and I'm not a candidate - but last time I checked reading about the Constitution, the Electoral College has nothing to do with parties, has absolutely nothing to do with parties. It's most states are winners take all. -- Michael Bloomberg
The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and at the same time encouraged the production of side branches at those parts of the stem where they were most desired. -- Robert Fortune
I grew up in a household without a TV. We lived next door to a library for a while, and at one point, I checked out all the books in the fairy tale section. I remember the librarian's quiet smile as I'd bring back one stack and exchange it for another. -- Victoria Hanley
Everybody goes to clinics, to hospitals, to doctors, and so on. Some people go to Planned Parenthood. But you don't have to go to Planned Parenthood to get your cholesterol or your blood pressure checked. If you want an abortion, you go to Planned Parenthood, and that's well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does. -- Jon Kyl
Communication between band-mates is imperative. Communication is the key to any healthy relationship. If I need to be checked, I expect to hear it put in plain words what my faults are, and give my band-mates the ultimate consideration by shutting up and listening, then acting on the advice given. Same goes for anyone else in any band. -- Phil Anselmo
The type of leukemia that I am dealing with is treatable. So if I do what my doctors tell me to do - get my blood checked regularly, take my meds and consult with my doctor and follow any additional instructions he might make - I will be able to maintain my good health and live my life with a minimum of disruptions to my lifestyle. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Generous deeds should not be checked by cold council. -- Faramir
Last time I checked, there is no 'Hall of Average.' -- Chip Kelly
Last time I checked, lifting theory has a PR of zero. -- Steve Shaw
If I were a flowerpot, I would've checked my hair. ~Carter Kane -- Rick Riordan
She checked herself in the mirror. She was a roadmap of violence. -- Simon Wood
Everybody has a colon. Everyone over 50 needs to get their colon checked. -- Julie Gerberding
Luck? Good luck? GM, the last time I checked, luck is for losers. -- CM Punk
Last time I checked, there were no Americans at all in Renaissance art. -- Camille Paglia
We can speculate. Last time I checked, the future doesn't take my advice. -- Junot Diaz
Holmstrom has broken an Olympic record by being cross checked 46 times in one game! -- Harry Neale
I should have checked the price tag before I gave them my last name. -- George Strait
Never blame others for tracking in mud, until you have checked your own feet. -- Wes Fesler
Last time I checked I was able to throw the ball a little bit. -- Robert Griffin III
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I want to encourage everyone to be proactive with their health and get checked out. -- Giuliana Rancic
In my mind, I've always checked out in 2037; that's always been my expiration date. I'll be 75. -- Douglas Coupland
Finn did what he always did when confronted by an angry woman"?he checked out her boobs. -- Jennifer Estep
Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid of losing what they had. -- Marya Mannes
Evil is the chronic malady of the universe, and checked in one place, breaks forth in another. -- Herman Melville
Moms never get out of the kid business. Last time I checked, motherhood had no expiration date." -- Lisa Scottoline
You know you've checked into Heartbreak Hotel for real when you feel less desirable than uncooked fish. -- Plum Sykes
One day you're the leader of Iraq, the next day you're being checked for fleas on FOX News. -- David Letterman
They say that there can never be two snowflakes that are exactly alike, but has anyone checked lately? -- Terry Pratchett
Choose a checked or striped wall paper. People will be halfway home before they are able to focus. -- Phyllis Diller
Have Tottenham closed the gap on Arsenal? Last time I checked they were still 4 miles and 11 titles away -- Arsene Wenger
Science is something that you have facts. They can be tested. They can be checked. Heterosexual AIDS, another one. -- Ann Coulter
No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain. -- Charles Caleb Colton
I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked. -- Tori Amos
It's a sensible rule that says before you get a mortgage it should be checked whether you can afford it. -- Martin Lewis
When I was in Vegas women were throwing their hotel keys at me. But it was after they checked out. -- George Burns
Zeal is more often checked after long years in the same service than when novelty gives a charm to our work. -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
It is a great vehicle for storytelling, especially for a certain kind of exhaustively reported, painstakingly fact-checked, and beautifully produced narrative. -- Clara Jeffery
If there is a God, he is not doing a good job of protecting the earth. He's kind of checked out. -- Ted Turner
I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old. -- Warren Buffett
I've never given anybody steroids before. I've been checked out three times already, and I'm clean. I've been clean all my life. -- Miguel Tejada
I didn't want to wear a checked shirt and grow a mustache - that's what you had to do, and everyone did. -- Neil Tennant
The news that Daisy Miller was surrounded by half a dozen wonderful mustaches checked Winterbourne's impulse to go straightway to see her. -- Henry James
As a dancer I've always checked my body constantly; 'Am I having a good day or am I having a fat day?' -- Bonnie Langford
A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source. -- Phyllis Bottome
But this we know, the obstacle that checked And tripped the body, shot the spirit on Further than target ever showed or shone. -- Robert Frost
So excited for the Apple Watch. For centuries, we've checked the time by looking at our phones. Having it on your wrist? Genius. -- Ellen DeGeneres
Who, last time I'd checked, was still on our official archenemy list. (Yes, we have to keep a list. It's kind of sad.) -- James Patterson
It is a revolution, and it can no more be checked by human effort... than a prarie fire by a gardener's watering pot. -- Judah P. Benjamin
This is a sport where you get your ego checked on a regular basis, whether it's in the cage or it's at practice. -- Carlos Condit
Is he dead?" he inquired. "He looks dead." "No," snapped Maryse. "He's not dead." "Have you checked? I could kick him if you want. -- Cassandra Clare
The impression left after watching the motions of birds is that of extreme mobility - a life of perpetual impulse checked only by fear. -- Richard Jefferies
The last I checked, 'Titanic' worldwide has grossed $1.3 billion. Imagine how much more it would have grossed if I had gotten the sky correct, -- James Cameron
As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man. -- Samuel Richardson
I put on your sequined ball gown and I checked the mirror there. Why, I looked like Cindy Crawford, but with much more body hair. -- Jerry Reed
No one checked to see if I had a place to live or food to eat, and at 14, I found myself basically on my own. -- Diane Guerrero
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I'm a great believer in getting checked out because if you know you're OK, you actually feel better; your mind plays a big part of it. -- Simon Cowell
I never understood whether the word 'amnesty' is correct or not. Maybe I am not very intelligent but I checked the dictionary to find the meaning. -- Kapil Dev
The last time I checked, the Constitution said, 'of the people, by the people and for the people.' That's what the Declaration of Independence says. -- William J. Clinton
Enlightenment is x-rated, honey; if you haven't checked it out. It's hot, it's vivacious. You're going to take your mind and merge it with the entire cosmos. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Enlightenment is x-rated, honey; if you haven't checked it out. It's hot, it's vivacious. You're going to take your mind and merge it with the entire cosmos. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I am so addicted to crystals, it's like a sickness. I've spent $500,000 on crystals this year. I checked my bank account last night, and I have $203 left. -- Spencer Pratt
We are trying to send our message to let the world know what is happening and what will happen to the Maldives if climate change isn't checked. -- Mohamed Nasheed
I got Twitter like two months ago, checked it out a bit more, and I concluded the only thing Twitter I'm interested in following is Nick Stoller. -- Evan Goldberg
My bucket list is pretty much checked off. But oh, we should play in space! Let's do that. We'll play in space, up on a satellite somewhere. -- Patrick Stump
I checked my gear, my pockets, my shoelaces, and realized that I had crossed the line between making sure I was ready and trying to postpone the inevitable. -- Jim Butcher
She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading was her only indulgence. -- Nicholas Sparks
The soldier had stamped my passport FAMILY in heavy black capital letters and I checked it now for reassurance and because I liked how fierce the word looked -- Meg Rosoff
It is inherent in any definition of science that statements that cannot be checked by observation are not really saying anything or at least they are not science. -- George Gaylord Simpson
Lyndon Johnson believed the poor deserved a better life than the economy was providing them. He thought private power and greed had to be checked by a vibrant democracy. -- Bill Moyers
You either have to find a way to be really creative materially, or you better have a trust fund. And, last I checked, I didn't have a trust fund. -- Mark Bradford
Instability of temper ought to be checked when it disposes men to wander from one scheme to another: since such a fickleness cannot but be attended with fatal consequences. -- Joseph Addison
I think many articles in the New Yorker have a strong point of view, but they are so rigorously fact-checked. I wouldn't call them objective, but they feel fair. -- Alex Gibney
Good. If you checked your e-mail every five minutes, or keep texting and Tweeting in the middle of our conversation, I might snap your neck out of sheer principle. -- Jeaniene Frost
If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked. -- Bill Walsh
And Zach was taking his jacket off and draping it around my shoulders, which (according to Liz, who double checked with Macey) is the single-sexiest thing a guy can do. -- Ally Carter
If you're like me, I get hooked into to-do lists, you know. I'll say I checked that off. Okay, I did that. And you have all these things you're doing. -- Jeff Bridges
Last I checked, the album was #82 out of the top 200 on the Billboard charts thanks to you all. I pray that keeps moving up and with your help it will. -- LaToya London
Stones are checked every so often to see if any have split or at worst exploded. An explosion can leave debris in the elements so the firing has to be abandoned. -- Andy Goldsworthy
An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information. -- Albert Einstein
Crap. I was hopin' all things ugly had been raptured, but you're still muckin' up the planet.""We must share the same faith, honey. 'Cause beauty checked out when you showed up." -- Courtney Vail
Don't sit around playing Mr. Tough Guy. Don't say 'It's going to go away.' It's just important, just go get checked out. It's not like you're going to lose your manhood. -- Peter Criss
Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen. -- George Orwell
It's age. It's a diminution of energy and the worry that there are no new ideas. It's an increasing lack of confidence. I'm not the only one. I've checked with other people. -- Stephen Sondheim
I finally had my prostate checked. And I was super-thankful that I taught my asshole to whistle before the doctor stuck his finger in there. The look on his face was priceless. -- Ryan Reynolds
A [news] magazine printed a [photo-illustration] of me in a ball gown holding a vacuum cleaner, saying I started a company. Last time I checked, I'm not selling vacuums. It was very sexist. -- Reese Witherspoon
It's too hard a life for me. I could only do it - check out in that sense - if I checked out somewhere that was luxurious and within hailing distance of civilization. -- Derek Jacobi
I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era. -- Bruce Feiler
We checked carefully the international law - what does a nation do when terrorists are using civilians to defend their life, as a shelter. And they say you do not have a choice. -- Shimon Peres
When the King is checked, or any valuable Piece in danger from the attack of an enemy, you are said to interpose a man when you play it between the attacked and attacking Piece. -- Howard Staunton
The first amazing fact about gravitation is that the ratio of inertial mass to gravitational mass is constant wherever we have checked it. The second amazing thing about gravitation is how weak it is. -- Richard P. Feynman
In response to how he checked the weather, "I just whip out my blue card with a hole in it and read what it says: 'When color of card matches color of sky, FLY!'" -- Gordon Baxter
As a woman, you need to take control of your health. There's no harm in going in and getting checked out. Eventually, you have to ask yourself: 'Do I want to live at 100% or 80%?' -- Summer Sanders
I actually have OCD really bad, and it's getting a bit worse at the moment. I have to check taps... before I leave the house, to make sure I've checked everything in case it floods. -- Sam Smith
There are days when I think: what if I just checked out? What if I grew a beard and went off to live somewhere remote? I have often wondered about the freedom that would bring. -- David Schwimmer
Our leaders have asked for 'shared sacrifice.' But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were expecting. They, too, were left untouched. -- Warren Buffett
Male conspiracy cannot explain all female failures. I am convinced that, even without restrictions, there still would have been no female Pascal, Milton, or Kant. Genius is not checked by social obstacles: it will overcome. -- Camille Paglia

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